Surviving (and thriving) in raw, untamed wilderness. Nicole Apelian talks joyful triumph and her new mini-series, “Surviving The Stone Age”.
The Gift of Discomfort
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Favorite Things: Foraging Field Reference Bandana
When the Wazoo Survival Gear crew asked me to help them create this foraging field reference bandana along with Mark Merriwether Vorderbruggen I was thrilled. Foraging is something I teach a few times every year because it is such an important part of being prepared...
Portland Monthly | This Banana Slug–Eating Survivalist Will School You on Wilderness Skills
Nicole Apelian says those mustard-colored monopods are delicious. From the Portland Monthly article, authored by Rebecca Jacobson: Nicole Apelian can build a waterproof shelter from forest debris. She can start a fire in the dumping rain. And, most impressively, she...
Bleeker Street Media | An Interview with Dr. Nicole Apelian
From the article on Bleeker Street Media | by Peter Bowen: In Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, a father (Ben Foster) and his daughter (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) create a hidden home in the middle of Portland's Forest Park. For Granik, "Tom and Will are part of a...
Leave No Trace: The Art of Nature Connection Training
We worked in an intensive camp with Dr. Nicole Apelian, she was the engine and heart of this film. She taught Tom, Debra, our crew and myself that touching nature in some small way every day is healing. She reminded all of us that connection to the eternal makes...
Salon | Ben Foster on his role in indie hit “Leave No Trace”
From the Salon interview with actor Ben Foster on his role in the film "Leave No Trace" by Andrew O'Hehir: "I worked with someone named Dr. Nicole Apelian for these tribal skills, or primitive skills rather. Nature becomes legible. You get into the forest and it's...
Dazed | The moving new film about a father and daughter living outside society
From the Dazed article by Nick Chen: 'Will and 13-year-old Tom, a father and daughter camping out in the wilderness, are what most of us consider to be homeless. The self-sufficient duo, played by Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie in Debra Granik’s poignant, socially...
The Oregonian | Story of father and girl found living in Forest Park is now a movie
From the article on OregonLive by Marc Mohan: For the second time this year, a powerful novel by a Portland-area author has become an acclaimed independent film focused on characters at the margins of society. ...Assisting with the actors' wilderness training was...
Portland Tribune | Nicole Apelian Gets Back To Basics
Survival skills pro and 'Alone' star is consulting on movie From the Portland Tribune article, authored by Lyndsey Hewitt: Apelian believes that humanity is too disconnected and needs to find its way back to community living. "Because these things have been taken out...